The CIT

The
International Rail Transport Committee (CIT)
is an association of some 216 railway undertakings and shipping companies which provide international passenger and/or freight services. 130 organisations are members in their own right, 80 organisations are linked indirectly by being members of CIT associate members. The CIT is an association under Swiss law (Article 60 et seq. ZGB [Swiss Code of Civil Law]) and is based in Bern.

The CIT has a clear mission: we want to support our members in ways that will enable them to successfully provide international passenger and freight services by rail. Creating transparency between different legal regimes, making harmonised and standardised products available to members and moving ahead with the elimination of legal and administrative barriers – these were the areas we focused on again in 2016.

The CIT and
IRU
developed a Guideline on the CMR-CIM-SMGS liability regimes. The aim is to publish a comparison between international rail (COTIF/CIM and SMGS) and international road transport law (CMR).

The particular added value of this comparison of legal regimes is that it includes, for the first time, both the CIM and the SMGS provisions, and the comparison extends in geographical terms beyond the scope of COTIF/CIM to that of the SMGS.

The new editions of
GLV-CIM, GTM-CIT
,
GLW-CUV and GTW-CIT
aim to facilitate the application of the electronic consignment note and electronic wagon note. Their presentation and interactivity have been improved in order to make them more user-friendly.